Ray Nagin quote: "I think the president is really focused on the job at hand, and they are really starting to move, ... On almost anything that I want to do now, I get a nearly instantaneous response."

One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weeken...
RAY NAGIN

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, i...
RAY NAGIN

I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air c...
RAY NAGIN

At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd ru...
RAY NAGIN

I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.
RAY NAGIN

I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it...
RAY NAGIN

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter an...
RAY NAGIN

They are thinking small, man. This is a major, major deal.
RAY NAGIN

We are not taking any crap, ... If you come back to this city and you think it's going to be the way...
RAY NAGIN

Since the area sustained heavy damage, we urge everyone to take the necessary precautions to remain ...
RAY NAGIN

Anyone who is thinking about coming and staying, make sure that you are a very mobile person,
RAY NAGIN

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, ...
RAY NAGIN

I think this is kind of a put-up-or-shut-up moment, ... How concerned are you, city of New Orleans, ...
RAY NAGIN

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd j...
RAY NAGIN

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobil...
RAY NAGIN

I understand they want to stay in their homes, but I tell you there is a very volatile situation in ...
RAY NAGIN

We will have life. We will have commerce. We will have people getting back into their normal modes o...
RAY NAGIN

Hopefully we won't have another event, ... It's like your washing machine. First, Katrina was kind o...
RAY NAGIN

I said, 'Mr. President, Madam Governor, you two have to get in sync. If you don't get in sync, more ...
RAY NAGIN

I don't know what the gentleman did, but whatever he did, he didn't deserve what I saw on tape.
RAY NAGIN

Now is not the time to change leadership. I ask the citizens of New Orleans to let me continue this ...
RAY NAGIN

And I don't care what people are saying in Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate ...
RAY NAGIN

I'm hoping to come up with a system that if we do have to do any mass demolitions down in the Lower ...
RAY NAGIN

Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked ab...
RAY NAGIN

We now have a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the city of New Orleans.
RAY NAGIN

I feel like Sisyphus a lot of times, pushing a rock up a hill.
RAY NAGIN

There have been too many people who have said we were dead. There were too many people who said we w...
RAY NAGIN

He leaves the department in pretty good shape,
RAY NAGIN

What I'm trying to figure out is, should we bypass all the political stuff -- you know, these people...
RAY NAGIN

I feel sorry for him.
RAY NAGIN

[He conceded that he made] a couple of specific mistakes, ... get over their differences and work to...
RAY NAGIN

It's a sad day in the city of new orleans when a hero makes a decision like this, ... He leaves the ...
RAY NAGIN

Make sure you are a very mobile person
RAY NAGIN

We're learning as we go, ... We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize ...
RAY NAGIN

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.
RAY NAGIN

The palm trees are swaying and we've got 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3 meters) waves. It's very, very rough...
RAY NAGIN

With Hurricane Rita behind us, the task at hand is to bring New Orleans back. We want people to retu...
RAY NAGIN

That's why we are taking this unprecedented move, ... The storm surge most likely will topple our le...
RAY NAGIN

We want you to take this very seriously,
RAY NAGIN

not martial law.
RAY NAGIN

It looks as though at this point there's a 50 to 60 percent chance that New Orleans will receive tro...
RAY NAGIN

Once the storm gets in the Gulf of Mexico, there's no telling where it's going to go,
RAY NAGIN

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared,
RAY NAGIN

Board up your homes, make sure you have enough medicine, make sure the car has enough gas,
RAY NAGIN

If the CIA rubs me out before long, you know what happened.
RAY NAGIN

[New Orleans] basically sits like a bowl, and most of the city is under sea level ... so if we get a...
RAY NAGIN

I'm always concerned about it because of our levee being so battered and beaten, ... But with the Co...
RAY NAGIN

If we are off, I'd rather err on the side of conservatism to make sure we have everyone out,
RAY NAGIN

I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive. I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We m...
RAY NAGIN

Yeah, I don't know what to say, ... I got to go.
RAY NAGIN

Do all things you normally do for a hurricane but treat this one differently because it is pointed t...
RAY NAGIN

It's very hot. There is no shade. We need to get provisions to them, ... They have zero.
RAY NAGIN

We're not even dealing with dead bodies, ... They're just pushing them on the side.
RAY NAGIN

everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing.
RAY NAGIN

The levee systems are very wet, they're somewhat weakened, and any type of storm surge would cause f...
RAY NAGIN

Once we get the 3,000 National Guardsmen here, we're locking this place down, ... It's really diffic...
RAY NAGIN

The levee system is still in a weakened condition,
RAY NAGIN

It scared the crap out of me, ... I immediately said, 'My God, I have to call a mandatory evacuation...
RAY NAGIN

The housing challenge, both temporary and long term, is the No. 1 issue, ... Pre-Katrina, you could ...
RAY NAGIN

It's something we're very excited about, ... It's something the mayor has been pushing for, because ...
RAY NAGIN

It's a good time to run for mayor because it'll be less poor, less black, less democratic.
RAY NAGIN

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us hav...
RAY NAGIN

I think it was awful, ... I was surprised that it happened frankly. I don't know what the gentleman ...
RAY NAGIN

New Orleans is not asking for a handout; we're asking for a hand up,
RAY NAGIN

The task at hand is to bring New Orleans back, ... However, we want everyone to assess the risks and...
RAY NAGIN

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-el...
RAY NAGIN

It's such a sad day to come here, ... My sympathy goes out to all the families whose loved ones have...
RAY NAGIN

There's a breach in the 17th Street Canal.
RAY NAGIN

It's very important for people to come back to the city and take a look and understand.
C. RAY NAGIN

With Hurricane Rita behind us, the task at hand is to bring New Orleans back. We want everyone to as...
C. RAY NAGIN

I think if Mr. Benson wants to leave, he could have done it a little bit differently. Not right afte...
C. RAY NAGIN

I've talked directly with the president, I've talked to the head of the Homeland Security, I've talk...
C. RAY NAGIN

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits a...
RAY LAMONTAGNE

I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. Th...
VANESSA RAY

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the thi...
VANESSA RAY

Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
VANESSA RAY

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
VANESSA RAY

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during ...
RAY BRADBURY

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a s...
RAY MANZAREK

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES

Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog prob...
RAY COMFORT

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bo...
RAY COMFORT

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s...
RAY KURZWEIL

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
RAY BRADBURY

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by ...
RAY LEWIS

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.
RAY LEWIS

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I h...
RACHAEL RAY

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everythi...
RACHAEL RAY

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
RACHAEL RAY

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry an...
RACHAEL RAY

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are ke...
RACHAEL RAY

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With ...
RACHAEL RAY

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when...
RACHAEL RAY

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quota...
RACHAEL RAY

When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I...
RACHAEL RAY

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
RACHAEL RAY

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and ...
RACHAEL RAY

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd h...
RACHAEL RAY

When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in ...
RACHAEL RAY

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
RACHAEL RAY

You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
RACHAEL RAY

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 ho...
RACHAEL RAY

The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.
RACHAEL RAY

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying '...
RACHAEL RAY

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spice...
RACHAEL RAY

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
RACHAEL RAY

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAY

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAY

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while other...
MAN RAY

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
MAN RAY

All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...
MAN RAY

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.
RAY SANTIAGO

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the ani...
RAY PARK

Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and ...
AMIT RAY

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for ...
ALLAN RAY

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...
AMIT RAY

In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.
AMIT RAY

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainl...
SATYAJIT RAY

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a '...
RAY KURZWEIL

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors...
RAY BRADBURY

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.
RAY ROMANO

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people...
RAY BRADBURY

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are...
RAY BROWN

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great...
RAY COMFORT

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother'...
RAY BRADBURY

Beware the autumn people
RAY BRADBURY

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at ...
RAY BRADBURY

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating...
RAY COMFORT

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.
RAY KROC

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bo...
SATYAJIT RAY

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the f...
RAY DAVIES

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
RAY STEVENS

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought...
RAY BRADBURY

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds g...
RAY DALIO

Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through ...
RAY BEDARD

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i...
RAY LEWIS

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. F...
RAY BRADBURY

Yes, it is totally acceptable that for any given country to become assured of its safety, it has to ...
RAY ANYASI

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peac...
AMIT RAY

A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.
AMIT RAY

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so ...
RAY BRADBURY

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...
RAY BRADBURY

Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play groun...
AMIT RAY

Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step ...
AMIT RAY

Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.
AMIT RAY

Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.
AMIT RAY

Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.
AMIT RAY

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage...
AMIT RAY

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love ...
AMIT RAY

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
AMIT RAY

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
RAY PRINCE

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
JOHN RAY

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.
AMIT RAY

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Hig...
AMIT RAY

Children are poor men's riches.
JOHN RAY

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
RAY BRADBURY

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also tur...
RAY LAMONTAGNE

Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It...
RAY BRADBURY

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...
RAY BRADBURY

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When...
RAY BRADBURY

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...
RAY BRADBURY

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
RAY BRADBURY

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.
AMIT RAY

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened...
RAY BRADBURY

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...
RAY BRADBURY

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around."
"Oh, they don't miss me," she ...
RAY BRADBURY

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom o...
AMIT RAY

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
AMIT RAY

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...
AMIT RAY

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"...
RAY BRADBURY

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.
AMIT RAY

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...
AMIT RAY

Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently.
AMIT RAY

Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.
AMIT RAY

You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.
AMIT RAY

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.
RAY CHARLES

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.
AMIT RAY

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.
AMIT RAY

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of yo...
AMIT RAY

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURY

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape he...
RAY BRADBURY

Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.
AMIT RAY

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.
AMIT RAY

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing n...
AMIT RAY

And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
RAY LAMONTAGNE

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
AMIT RAY

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see ...
RAY BRADBURY

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...
RAY BRADBURY

You have planted many seeds in the garden of possibilities. Meditation is the art removing the weeds...
AMIT RAY

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at ...
RAY CHARLES

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...
MAN RAY

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
RAY KROC

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ours...
RAY BRADBURY

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
JOHN RAY

Life is trying things to see if they work.
RAY BRADBURY

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
RAY BRADBURY

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAY

And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as ...
RAY BRADBURY

I think the president is really focused on the job at hand, and they are really starting to move, ... On almost anything that I want to do now, I get a nearly instantaneous response.

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I think the president is really focused on the job at hand, and they are really starting to move, ... On almost anything that I want to do now, I get a nearly instantaneous response.

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